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Ultimately competition at this level is a celebration less of country than of character: of the will to do better, push through pain, leave the fear at the top of the mountain in pursuit of speed, come to the ice like a soldier in sequins; to defy the laws of physics and nature, bury the effort under the grace. That's what makes it fun to watch and useful as well. Games have always been a handy mirror for every challenge we face, every test we take. But we may be especially grateful for the chance to stop and watch...
This is no longer the state in which some 120 settlers from Arkansas were killed for being non-Mormons in the infamous Mountain Meadows Massacre of 1857. Now the gates to the Beehive State are wide open. Five million people visited its five national parks last year. A record 3.4 million skier days were recorded last season at its 14 Rocky Mountain resorts. And Utah is bending over backward to attract science graduates, software wizards and venture capitalists from across the country...
...Record" item on radioactive nuclear waste that will be buried in Yucca Mountain, Nev. [NOTEBOOK, Jan. 21], referred to the Energy Secretary as Abraham Spencer. The correct name is Spencer Abraham. In the same item, we said the buried waste will remain radioactive for 10,000 years. Instead, the figure 10,000 is the number of years of storage the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Environmental Protection Agency require to meet radiation-protection standards...
...Crimson finished with 197 team points, to Vermont’s 753.5 first-place finish. In the overall standings Harvard managed to defeat just one school, Green Mountain College, who did not race in the nordic portion...
...support system in excess of a couple hundred throughout the entire island. That's going to be a big challenge. That's not just a military answer; there's a civil-military piece to this whole thing. If a guy grows a crop and takes it across a mountain, and he takes it to market and he sells it, but coming back from the sale he gets robbed, and the government can't do anything to protect him, then there's a problem. So what we want to do is look at the bigger picture and say, okay...